Accession Number: 2020-035-03
Original work: oil on linen
Original size: 18 by 27 inches
As Navy pilots near the end of their advanced F-18 training at NAS Oceana in Norfolk, Virginia a “Family Day” is organized to allow friends and family of the pilots to see first hand some of the activities and facilities in which their pilot have trained during the lengthy time they have been there. Included in the trainee-led tour is the maintenance hangar, flight line, squadron briefing for the day’s sorties, and depicted here, a trip to Navy Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) Fentress located roughly twenty miles away from NAS Oceana. The purpose of an NALF is to reduce congestion in the landing pattern at the main base when to focus of the mission is on practicing flying the “ball” for pinpoint landings simulating carrier landings. The families are allowed to get right up to the runway at the approach end to watch their pilots practice simulated carrier landings. In about four weeks the pilots will graduate and be assigned to a carrier squadron in the fleet.
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